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April 5: The Week in Review
The week began with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi leader, still making decisions on his own, something we have been waiting for him to do. He proved in less than a week that he isn’t capable. So, after he sent the Iraqi “army” into Basara to take on the al-Sadr Madhi militia and after a few hundred deaths, a [...]
Bombs Drop on Basara Today, Whose Surge is Working?
Basara… remember Basara? That was the once semi-peaceful area in southern Iraq, so peaceful in fact that U.K. was withdrawing troops from the front lines. And, Baghdad… remember Baghdad? The capital of Iraq, our $700 million (and still counting) half completed U.S. Embassy, and the precious Green Zone.
And, do we all remember how well the [...]
Talk About a Bush Pisser, Iraqi’s Go to Iran to Stop the Violence
It seems that while the Iraqi government is willing to call in our military for air strikes and the U.K. troops to fire rounds on the Madhi militia, they send two envoys to Iran to call an end to the violence. How is the Bush administration going to explain that one away?
Remember, it wasn’t too [...]
A Surge Against the Surge in Iraq
With words like “success” and “victory” a few days behind us, Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shi’ite cleric has proved how wrong we can be.
This past weeked marked the anniversary of the Bush war in Iraq. President Bush proclaimed
“The answers are clear to me,” Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon five years from the day [...]
